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I am looking for students interested in joining my research program on rural livelihoods in the Peruvian Amazon. The program is divided into three projects that aim to understand: (1) livelihood responses to floods and river dynamics; (2) rural livelihoods and socioeconomic change and (3) social networks, rural life and livelihoods. Inquiries from motivated students with a suitable academic background, an interest in field-based work, working knowledge of Spanish and prior research/travel experience in Latin America are strongly encouraged. Students will be expected to seek additional external funding opportunities. Individuals with a broader interest on cultural/political ecology, rural livelihoods and their prospects for conservation and development, poverty alleviation and adaptation to environmental change in Latin America should also feel free to contact me. Please include a brief research statement, cv, and transcripts.

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I am looking for MSc and PhD students to participate in NSERC and Canadian Space Agency projects on vegetation remote sensing and terrestrial carbon and water cycle modeling at regional and global scales.

I am Mushkegowuk (Cree), a member of Constance Lake First Nation in Treaty 9, and of French ancestry. Broadly, my research examines colonial capitalist dispossession and violence on Indigenous lands and bodies, as well as Indigenous practices of resurgence and freedom. My current research project is on environmental (in)justice in Mushkegowuk territory. Over the past several years, I have also collaborated with Dr. Magie Ramirez, in an effort to build grounded theorizations of decolonial geographies.

Joseph Desloges

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The influence of rivers, glaciers and humans on landform development in the northern hemisphere, mainly in the mountain areas of Canada, Greenland and Iceland with emphasis on B.C., the southern Yukon and southern Ontario.

My special interests are the influence of climate change and human disturbance on geomorphic processes and landform change with an emphasis on river floodplains and sediment yield in glacierized landscapes. Contemporary and Holocene glacier fluctuations have been reconstructed using terrestrial and high-resolution glaciolacustrine and glaciomarine sedimentary archives. I have conducted research mainly in large glacier-fed lakes of the western Canadian Cordillera and, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Copenhagen, deep fiords of western Greenland. More recent work has focussed on late Quaternary and Holocene fluvial environments of southern Ontario with particular emphasis on decoupling the influence of humans disturbance on erosion from that associated with climate-induced changes. Geophysical, geochronology and geoarchaeology methods have been used extensively to develop and interpret the sedimentary record.

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Emily Gilbert

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Citizenship, borders and security

Nationalism, postcolonialism, globalization

The culture and politics of money

Social and political theory

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My current research revolves around issues related to citizenship, borders, security, economy, nation-states and globalization. I am particularly interested in the ways that North American geopolitical relations are being reshaped, and how the idea of risk—both economic and social—has been used to discipline behaviour and promote new forms of citizenship. This work also considers the securitization of the region, with a focus on changing border practices and policies. Another aspect of my research addresses the social, cultural and political dimensions of money, from the cultural values inscribed on national currencies, to the proposals for a North American Monetary Union, to general theories of money and exchange. While much of the above work interrogates the concept of the nation-state, I also continue to be fascinated by visual and literary representations, and have examined urban and wilderness narratives with a special emphasis on Canadian national identity and belonging.

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Students with a quantitative and science background with an interest in the integration of spatially distributed wind and solar energy resources with energy storage and energy demand management, or in the quantitative analysis of energy efficiency measures in specific end use sectors, or in the balance of energy supply and demand in specific regions under scenarios of stringent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, are sought.

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100 St. George Street, Room 6028, Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario, Canada M5S 3G3

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I welcome graduate students interested in studying environmental issues related to our atmosphere, biosphere, and/or interactions between them with advance methods in remote sensing and model simulations. I welcome inquires from self-motivated students with one or more backgrounds in geography, atmospheric science, environmental science, engineering, physics, mathematics, and other related disciplines. Please see my research interests on my website.

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I look forward to working with master’s students who have interests in waste studies or discard studies. The research can focus on any type of waste (e.g. household waste, food waste, e-waste, textile waste, plastic waste).

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I am recruiting MA and PhD students for a new research project on alternative approaches to ecological restoration. The project entitled, “Ecologies of Care: Forest Landscape Restoration in India” examines social and ecological outcomes of state-led afforestation programs in India and ongoing community-based and citizen-led approaches to ecological nurturance. While, my ideal student would be someone who is already embedded in activist-academic networks on Indigenous rights and environmental justice in India, I am equally enthusiastic about working with students who wish to explore decolonization of nature-people relations, alternatives to neoliberal conservation, revival of the commons, ecological care and affective ecologies in other parts of the world.

Jason Spicer

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political and social movement responses to economic inequality

urban, regional and community economic development

cooperatives, alternative enterprises, and the social + solidarity economy

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I welcome PhD in Planning applicants interested in three broad areas:

The role that politics, planning and policy play in conditioning the viability of alternative economic forms at multiple spatial scales, from the city-region to the transnational, across the Global North. These community-oriented, social and solidarity economy alternatives may include enterprise models such as cooperatives, industrial foundations, special purpose trusts (e.g. data trusts, land trusts) and innovative non-hierarchical or non-profit networked forms in the high-tech sector.

Political implications of rising inter-urban/regional economic inequality, polarization, and populism in rich democracies.

Links between community development, economic development, and sexual and gender diversity.